English UsageGrammar guide
Associated With: Standard Pattern
Associated With: Standard Pattern records the directly documented Cambridge construction and keeps the guidance bounded to the evidenced complement pattern rather than inventing a broader prohibition.
Cambridge documents “associated with” for people or things that are linked or connected, including risks connected with a cause.
Key details
Confusion Familyusage-construction
Rule Familyverb-participle complement
Termsassociated with
Further guidance
Construction
Cambridge documents “be associated with” for things linked with one another, including risks or problems connected with a cause.
Style Boundary
This page records the associated-with construction without claiming that every use of the verb “associate” must appear in passive form.
Sources and evidence
Sources are shown with the role they play in this guide. Historical or style-sensitive claims are kept within the evidence boundary described above.
- be associated with something — Cambridge Dictionary (opens in a new tab)Cambridge University Press · Cambridge dictionary evidence for the construction be associated with something.